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is it true that you can get an Infestation of Rats in a Palm ?

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trioderob Grand Master

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can you really get a crew of rodents living in a palm ?

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I know for certain you can get an infestation of seed eating rats in your greenhouse :rage::rage::rage:

trioderob Grand Master

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if a palm gets rats why dont the owls fly around the palm and pick the suckers off ?

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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To answer your question, "yes", sort of.

Rodents are intellgent creatures, and they'll find a safe home in a spiny palm. Washies in particular that are never trimmed seem to draw their share of them.

I've never seen rats living in any other palm, though. You'd think they'ld love Phoenix, but I've not seen any rats in them in my time.

I think the owls do come and get them. Just not fast enough to eliminate them entirely. They can reproduce prodigiously.

Most other palms, like kings, don't really offer a happy home. There's not enough hiding places, and those that are there, don't have the armor of spines a washie has. (Maybe Phoenix are TOO spiny, and the rats get impaled . . . .?)

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I had roof rats, not necessarily living in the crown of a particular palm, but in the canopy and roofs of the neighborhood - and jump from tree to tree. They completely hacked off every frond of a tall Howea at the petiole near the crown, and left it completely naked.

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I have tons of rats in my CIDP. Sometimes you can hear them fighting. One night, there was a particularly noisy rat fight and a rat actually feel out of tree, landed a few feet away from me and ran off.

Matt

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0.6 Acres of a south facing, gently sloped dirt pile, soon to be impenetrable jungle

East of Mount Soledad, in the biggest cold sink in San Diego County.

Zone 10a (I hope), Sunset 24

trioderob Grand Master

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  On 3/14/2011 at 10:38 PM, Matt in SD said:

I have tons of rats in my CIDP. Sometimes you can hear them fighting. One night, there was a particularly noisy rat fight and a rat actually feel out of tree, landed a few feet away from me and ran off.

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hell of a fight.

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Not sure about rats, but one of my neighbors has a nice colony of bats in the their tall washies.

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I'd love to have the bats. The rats not so much!

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Tarantulas in my Bizzie - scared the Cr$P out of me when I pruned the branch - nice 6" black furry guy came running out!!

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I know this is off topic, but Trioderob, what do you know about multiple personality disorder?:rolleyes:

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  On 3/15/2011 at 12:39 AM, GTClover said:

I know this is off topic, but Trioderob, what do you know about multiple personality disorder?:rolleyes:

all I know is I want the bad people to stop talking to me in my dreams.

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  On 3/14/2011 at 10:41 PM, trioderob said:

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:38 PM, Matt in SD said:

I have tons of rats in my CIDP. Sometimes you can hear them fighting. One night, there was a particularly noisy rat fight and a rat actually feel out of tree, landed a few feet away from me and ran off.

Matt

hell of a fight.

I think there was a Shamey Jays song about this....

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Oh, there's a rat fight

In my palm dear

And he fell down

At my feet. . . .

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  On 3/15/2011 at 3:59 AM, BS Man about Palms said:

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:41 PM, trioderob said:

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:38 PM, Matt in SD said:

I have tons of rats in my CIDP. Sometimes you can hear them fighting. One night, there was a particularly noisy rat fight and a rat actually feel out of tree, landed a few feet away from me and ran off.

Matt

hell of a fight.

I think there was a Shamey Jays song about this....

quite right & it was much more interesting & only lasted 3 minutes.

the "prince of snarkness."

 

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Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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That's why I keep my Phoenix trimmed. I hate rats! I wage war on rats. I keep a special kind of trap in my barn so that they all die. I've been known to stomp on one to kill it. Did I mention I hate rats? I won't have traveler palms (I know it is not a palm) because the rats love them. I cut down 3 Washies because of rats.

Now, bats - that's a different story. I would love to have colonies of bats! Good animals - great for mosquito control.

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Queen palm is paradise for rats. My friend work at a car dearlership and see hundred of rats falling out when the tree trimmer hack off the frond. He told me never buy a car near the queen palm because the rats usually chew on the wiring and other material in the car.

In Escondido, the city wrapped a foot long aluminum band around many of the queen palms to keep away the rats.

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We had a jararaca (bothrops) snake in a Astrocaryum frond that jumped out as the frond was pulled off the tree a while ago. I have not seen any rats in the palms, but maybe the snakes keep them away. I am not too happy with having the snake there either.

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Rats also like the African Oil Palm and I have had them nesting in them as well as Dypsis madagascarensis.

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